Sorry for the late reply, @Ryumaru Borike
>Because the reason that state is dominated by one party is because the people of that state voted for that!
Let's just take the Governor, Kate Brown as an example. Kate Brown won the governorship with a 50% vote. Half of the people that did vote, voted for her. Just half. She doesn't represent that half, she represents the entirety of Oregon. She is a governor of the entire state, not just the Democrats. Break down Oregon county-level voting, and you'll see that only 3 counties are solidly blue (Portland metro area), with a few more that are light blue, and the majority are Red.
Effectively, it isn't representational of the counties and the people that live in those counties that didn't vote for her to have her and the one-party rule of Oregon legislate laws that existentially damning to them. That is tyranny of the entire state of Oregon, by a few, but population dense, areas.
>Almost like how the government is supposed to work. Everyone can't get what they want, so we pass what most people want.
Our state government is a smaller form of our federal government, which at it's core is a union of states. That is, our representation has more to do with geography than it does with population density. This is why political power is NOT distributed equally – and why some states, that may be smaller in population, have political power that is inflated. You're right, everyone can't get what they want, so they pass what most people want. But this isn't most people. And if this bill was put up to a popular vote, as the Republicans wanted it would have most likely failed.
> What's the point of a democracy when a few people can decide our votes don't matter? How is that excusable?
Tell that to the 50% of the people that did not vote for the Governor. The bill was destructive to half of the state. I don't recall them threatening violence. But how is it excusable? They are there to represent the interests of the people that were the most affected by the bill, and a large percentage of that group of people did not vote for the Democrats to rule over them like tyrants. That is what good statesmanship is about. It's not about following protocol and bureaucratic rules, it's about fighting for the people that voted you in.
>The fact that a few politicians can, at any time the want, decide that Government is no longer a democracy and that laws will not pass until they personally decide to let them is fucking atrocious.
If those laws are particularly harmful, tyrannical, or destructive to the people then who gives a shit if it's a democracy or not. Just because you voted in a tyranny doesn't erase the fact that it's a damn tyranny. And if you have a bill that is so ridiculously one sided and destructive to so many people in the state, how is that not tyrannical?
>Yes, how dare they try to pass a law that clearly the majority of the state supports.
Except it probably doesn't. The Republicans wanted the bill to be put up to the peoples' vote. Presumably because the fact of the matter was that if the people voted on it it wouldn't have passed. This isn't the majority of the state supporting a law. It's just a handful of politicians from one party.
>They're not heroes, not by a long shot. They denied the people of Oregon their democratic process and abandoned their civil duty.
They are heroes for standing up for their constituents that would have been horribly hurt by this law. They didn't deny the people of Oregon anything. The Republicans wanted the people of Oregon to vote on it, not a handful of politicians.
> I don't think I've ever been this upset over something political, ever.
Try to think of the spirit of what our government is supposed to do. What is the point of a so called democracy if the will of the small majority get's to enact laws that do not at all take into consideration the well being or the demands of the minority? Is it more important that someone who won 55% of the vote get's to dictate the law of the land for 100% of the people? Or is it more important that the person who won 55% of the votes attempts to create and pass laws that maximizes benefits (or costs) to all?
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